The collaborative project led by Prof. Lauren Andrews at UMass-Amherst aims to engineer synthetic bacteria to neutralize toxic contaminants in drinking water. One of the CIDAR lab's goals is to design and build a high-throughput multilayer Microfluidics platform for studying and maintaining bacterial communities to analyze temporal signaling at single-cell resolution. This work is part of our Postdoc Samuel Oliveira's and our grad student Ron Zhou's research at BU.
Find out more about it at: https://www.umass.edu/news/article/chemical-engineer-receives-14m-nsf-grant-create-programmable-living-devices-drinking https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2211040&HistoricalAwards=false